The 388 sq ft structure is built on galvanised steel stilts to prevent flooding. The outside of the chalet is clad with cedar shingles and the inside is clad with sawn softwood. Because the land slopes away from the breach, both internal and external steps were constructed to create a level surface inside

The Next Generation House by Sou Fujimoto Architects looks  like a house built with Jenga blocks. The NGH is a small weekend house that overlooks the River Kuma in Kumakura, Japan. It's approximately a 13'x13'x13' cube, but  functional enough for a weekend!

On Saturday the 19th of January 2008, yatzer featured exclusively an interview of mr.Truth An urban intervention artist , painter and sculptor who was born and lives in Wroclaw, Poland. Seven months later,  two of his installations were destroyed, but their photos will last forever!

Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they’d never be able to with spraypaint. Julien Breton 's light Calligraphie has stunning results!

Leaves of various shades of green cover the exterior and the interior walls of SABZ, a French interior design boutique which has moved to its new space early this Spring. 5.5 designers sign the design of this new atypical space between indoor and outdoor.

Re Jin, a New York based artist and designer, hand paints her illustrations on delicate, simple and elegant ceramic wares. "The meeting" consists of 3 plates with painted ants strictly for decoration purposes!

Based in Melbourne, Australia Jeremy Geddes is an artist who aims to portray extremes of emotion in his work. his paintings are highly realistic portraying unusual sights or a series of characters that are at times frightening.

WASARA, a Japanese company, has designed a beautiful line of eco-friendly paperware which serves  the legacy of the Japanese aesthetic and value sense. As a fate of paper tableware, a WASARA can serve its purpose only once.

Green Design Festival of Athens aims at fostering a wider understanding of environmental and ecological issues amongst the citizens of Athens and beyond.

Designed in 1899 by Jacques Gros, the famed health spa/hotel has a perfect city location overlooking Lake Zürich and the Alps. The grand old hotel has been re-imagined as a modern luxury hotel by a star team of professionals

Searching the Behance Network I came across the portfolio of sound designer SUiTOR. Those who remember the adidas Modular Man video in 2006 will appreciate his stunning BLEND and ORIGIN audio demonstrations for his portfolio.

Garden art is one of the many passions enjoyed by Andre Heller, the creator of the Crystal Worlds. In the far-reaching area around the Giant,  art consorts with nature with extraordinary objects from world famous artists and yatzer's favorite Sylvie Fleury with her sparkling large format letters.

Lok Jansen an illustrator and architect living and working in Tokyo in collaboration with illustrator and graphic designer Jeroen Koolhaas did the artwork of the PRADA FW 2008 Lookbook, produced by OMA*AMO - Rem Koolhaas with Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli.

On June 12, Pleyel, France’s oldest piano manufacturer, introduced its latest creation : « Voie Lactée », a baby grand designed by Andrée Putman. The designer imagined the piano as a traditional music box.

Company ,has been commissioned to design the graphic material for the Greek Pavilion at the 11th International Architecture Biennale. The winning Greek project, Athens by Sound (ABS), explores the city's sounds cape through interactive audio-visual installations.

Phillips de Pury & Company in association with outset contemporary art fund is pleased to announce that the proceeds of 17 lots of the London Design sale to be held September 25 will benefit the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Exactly 100 years after Adolf Loos wrote Ornament and Crime, a manifesto that effectively relegated ornament in architecture to the peripheries of the discourse, “Re-sampling Ornament” takes a first step towards tracing its re-emergence. On view at S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel.

Sebastian Schönheit designed an oversized knitwork which appears as if it originated in a different world and a coatrack, vitally reduced in form and shape, standing nonchalantly on two feet to let it lean against a wall. On view at Beijing's 798 art district from the 30th of November.

In occasion of the 500th anniversary of Andrea Palladio’s birth, Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher present “Aura”, a contemporary translation of Palladio’s harmonic system into a complex genotypic spatial environment.

Helen Amy Murray is an emerging talent who has been internationally recognised for her hands-on, luxury creations that take inspiration from nature and form to create surface relief within textiles. Her award-winning three-dimensional technique brings surfaces to life.

Dosmasuno arquitectos designed this stunning building in Madrid, Spain. It is aligned against a green area, against the concatenation of public spaces that link the old Carabanchel district with its forest through the new neighborhood.

VIA is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the very first Prisunic catalogue, mail order furniture catalogue, through the exhibition of sixty emblematic pieces, in its parisian gallery.

After kurage1 and kurage2 Schemata Architecture Office made the third of Kurage. Kurage is composed of optical fiber. By bending the optical fiber, the whole area is illuminated outside of the immediate area of the light, and together, they can make very soft light. 

Designgalleriet at Odengatan 21 is a completely new gallery in central Stockholm with focus on design. Form Us With Love is to be held responsible for the interior design as well as a custom designed room divider.

A strenuous season has reached its end and a new one is beginning which, I am finally pleased to say involves relaxation, piece of mind and enjoyment of the summer that has finally commenced. 

yatzer will be on holiday relaxing untill the 18th of August. [ I will miss you... ]